“Water enthrals the reader with entire fictional worlds that are touching and haunting. These stories expand the idea of what a short story can do, and ripple with mystery and wonder.” Meg Pokrass, author of First Law of Holes
From a garden in Cardiff to an island off the edge of Senegal, from the steppes of Russia to a park in Cadiz, these stories, some lighthearted, some heartbreaking, will take you on journeys to places imagined and real, places that reflect the richness of the everyday and the versatility of the literary imagination.
Water is a collection of stories by Valerie Fox, Pia Goddard, Joyce Hertzoff, Joanna Kania, Shaun Levin, Paweł Lucian Ługiewicz, SJ Lyon, Bob Merckel, Cynthia Saunders Reed, Zurina Saban, Ann Tudor, Rachel Wolcott, and Holly Woodward.
"We wanted to create a book that reflects the magic that happens when people write together, even when on Zoom, all of us in different parts of the world, each with a different view from our windows, each with our own unique way of writing. The collection includes images of those views and snippets of our handwriting as a way of welcoming the reader into the worlds we create in."
Honest and hopeful, the thirteen stories in this collection are intensely physical in the different ways that they carry us across the rocky terrain of adolescence, love, history and human connection. The themes reflect the wide spectrum of writers in Water, all of whom draw on a wealth of influences and lived geographies.
Click here to read an extract from Water.
